PhD Opportunities in Climate Science in Spain

🌍 TERRA-MED announces 33 funded international PhD positions, including a project co-supervised by Hug March Corbella and Ismael Yrigoy Cadena. This PhD is hosted by the TURBA Lab (Urban Transformation & Global Change Lab) at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona, with collaboration from Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) in Palma. Project UOC4: “The role of energy and water security in adapting to extreme heat by vulnerable households.” The research examines the Water-Energy-Cli...

The Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC) in Barcelona, Spain, is seeking a motivated predoctoral candidate to join the DRYLAND project and apply for an FPU or FI fellowship. This PhD opportunity focuses on understanding how drought affects soil biogeochemical cycles and mountain water quality. The project investigates how drought mobilizes carbon, nutrients, and trace elements from high-mountain soils and how these changes propagate to streams and rivers. The res...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Spain at the Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC–UCM) for research on AI weather prediction and climate change attribution of extreme events . The project is well suited to candidates with backgrounds in climate science , meteorology , atmospheric and environmental sciences , physics , applied mathematics , computer science , data science , or other quantitative disciplines. The topic combines Earth system science with machine learning and computational methods, making...

Fully funded PhD opening in AI-based prediction and climate change attribution of extreme events at the Geosciences Institute (IGEO), CSIC–Complutense University of Madrid in Spain . The project, ADAPT-X , is supervised by Dr. Bernat Jiménez Esteve and Dr. David Barriopedro . The research focuses on AI weather models for predicting and attributing extreme events such as heatwaves, extreme precipitation, droughts, and storms . It also includes factual/counterfactual forecast experiments and bench...

PhD opportunity in Evolutionary Biology at the Universitat de Barcelona (IRBio-UB, Biodiversity Research Institute) in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain . The project, METACVERS , uses cave-associated spiders to study how climate change shapes biodiversity and to investigate caves as potential climate refuges . The research combines fieldwork , high-throughput sequencing , and bioinformatic analyses , making it a strong fit for students interested in evolutionary and biodiversity research with a compu...

PhD opening at the Instituto de Geociencias (IGEO, CSIC–UCM) in Madrid, Spain, within the Physics of Climate and Climate Change group and the STREAM research group at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. The project, ADAPT-X – AI-Driven AnticiPated aTtribution of eXtreme events , focuses on AI-based weather prediction , climate change attribution , extreme events , and the evaluation of machine-learning weather models for heatwaves, heavy precipitation, droughts, and severe storms. The PhD researc...

PhD opportunity at IGEO-CSIC, Madrid, Spain The Physics of Climate and Climate Change group at the Instituto de Geociencias (IGEO, CSIC–UCM) invites applications for a PhD researcher to join the project ADAPT-X – AI-Driven AnticiPated aTtribution of eXtreme events (ref. 2025-T1/ECO-36122). This four-year position starts in Spring 2027, or as soon as possible thereafter, and is hosted in Madrid with access to GPU and high-performance computing resources. The project investigates how AI-based weat...